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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1883
Page
4
In the seventh column a fourteen month offer is announced for single subscribers or through postmasters or agents. Patrons expect many new singles during the summer with favorable terms. Each subscriber gets fourteen months, postmasters and agents receive the usual commission. Subscribe for fourteen months or until January 1884 for fifty cents.
Mrs Kate Tannatt Woods, famed author of two Globe stories, is readying another brilliant serial for publication in Tux Weekly. The title will be announced in the next issue, and now is urged to form clubs around the upcoming tale.
The Weekly Globe offers United States and Canada subscriptions at 100 per year or six for 500, with postage free. Subscriptions and notices require postal orders or drafts on New York or Boston, stamps accepted in 1 2 or 3 cent denominations. Include full name, address, and changes of address. duplicates for mail losses. address exchanges to Lock Drawer 5220 Boston. Sample copies are free.
A Washington paper criticizes President Arthur for whiskey use and hosting guests with $15 items, warning of aristocratic drift from republican simplicity. Other items note Rev. George Guirey in Paterson, a Chicago railway expo’s safety focus, and a Texas Colonel Tom Ochiltree’s London reform stint. Ohio Democrats push a tariff for revenue and government purification, signaling broader calls for reform as the nation awakens to its folly.
The text argues that thieves will not stop stealing their own accord and says the Ohio platform will be endorsed by a large majority in the fall and reaffirmed nationwide next year unless signs fail.
The piece argues Howells portrays female characters through a masculine lens, inviting both condemnation and praise from readers. It suggests male readers see women as perplexing, impulsive, and unfathomable, while Howells fails to provide deeper analysis or motive beyond superficial impulses.
The Ohio Democratic convention names Judge George Hoadley of Cincinnati as their nominee for governor. Geddes and Ward were contenders on the ballot but Geddes shifted to support the strongest candidate, while Republicans favor Foraker. Hoadley’s German popularity is seen as boosting his statewide appeal and potential future leadership.
The July issue features a symposium on church attendance with a non church goer and three doctors. Arguments claim attendance is declining due to church rigidity and expense, while others cite rising participation and the rise of children's church. Both sides advocate duty, morality, and social factors shaping faith and practice.
Dr. Ryland acknowledges the church’s deficiencies and follies, yet argues no other institution or medium can be as effective for good among people. He asserts the church has been and remains essential, despite imperfections.
A humorous portrait of a farm boy's summer exploits. He abandons books for skates and fishing gear, storms the uncle’s farm with a pirate vibe, taunts barnyard animals, falls from hay mows, battles hornets, builds a wooden cannon, and wanders a ten acre wood. Upon departure, the farmer breathes relief as the wild boy vanishes.
An appeal to the President urges American protest against British misrule in Ireland, condemning eviction by starvation and emigration as cowardly theft. It argues for U S action to halt aid to such policies, emphasizes global justice, and cites Gladstone’s stance. Also notes anti Jewish prejudice in Hungary and a Navy sale proposal by Secretary Chandler.
The piece denounces a proposed sale of ships as wartime junk, arguing the vessels are useless for war and reflect public funds wasted on bunk facilities. It questions Republican accountability for the corruption and the cost overruns tied to navy yard structures.
A sprawling rail of anecdotes covers Barnum on Butler for president, New Orleans commerce rising by over 11 million, Schenectady river misadventures, and McClellan on coast defense. Bits on Crook, shipbuilding clues, religious notices, a lifeboat count, a breach of promise case, and assorted opinions from Harper’s, Picayune, and New York law circles.
A digest of humorous exchanges on tariff views, political labels, and social observations. Anecdotes cover journalists misreading lawyers, a reporter on tariff beliefs, English youths sent to America, a California witness phrase, Booth on Shakespearean stock companies, and various oddities from Washington to France. Notable items include Dorsey libel threats, Treasury clerks, malaria in Washington, Albion College women secret society, and gold deposits myths in Lower California.
In Greenmount Cemetery Baltimore a man Laurenz Jacobs plans a third wife while two wives lie on either side of a vacant middle grave. The left stone bears Ursula M. Jacobs born 1800 died 1846 with German inscriptions and a bas relief hand. The right stone marks Elizabeth Jacobs born 1800 died 1872 with similar imagery. Jacobs’ own tomb shows hands pointing to both wives and bears the inscription Diese beiden sind mein. The lot sits near Junius Brutus Booth and John Wilkes Booth graves, raising questions about future additions and the final arrangement.
George W. Bromley, ordnance-sergeant, long serving at Fort Mifflin, departs for Washington with orders to receive a retirement commission. He fought in the Seminole and Mexican wars, was wounded at Monterey, and has long commanded the fort amid visits by generals including Sherman. born Norwich Conn August 3 1817.
A rustic tale recalls a perilous stag encounter with Jim W.'s horned buck pursuing a doe. The hunter describes losing his gun and knife, twisting the stag's horns to dislocate its neck, a risky escape, and a shouted lucky twist. An odd ad for a treatise by WORLD'S PrePANBABY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, offers cures for weak lungs and consumption without a physician.
A collage of curiosities and anecdotes including Aunt Dinah John of the Onondaga at age near ninety, a strange spoonbill catfish or sturgeon sighting near St Joseph, a Hindoo death linked to a kick by Mrs Joseph, 387 rattlesnakes found in a cave near Commerce, notes on beard history, La Bean population growth with new buildings, a 19th century cyclones experiment by Professor Douglas, a man chased by a flotilla of alligators, and a preacher touting Ayer’s Pills as a health creed.
The Weekly Globe offers 50 cents subscriptions from now until January 1884 to recruit subscribers and agents ahead of the approaching Presidential Campaign. A small effort by friends of the Globe could gain twenty or thirty in each town, turning them into permanent readers.
The usual commission is allowed to Postmasters and Agents for six months subscribers retained under the offer. commissions may be earned on one or more names sent under the program.
A dated notice offers five subscriber clubs from now until January 1984 with an incentive of a free copy for the same period or a usual commission deduction. It describes forming clubs and distributing free copies to encourage subscriptions.
The club of five subscribers earns an extra copy free for fourteen months and all papers are entered for fourteen months. Clubs may mail to one address or to each subscriber. Mailing several copies together reduces loss risk, and please mention you saw the advertisement in The Boston Weekly Globe.
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